Meet The Kali Team

Kali’s Core Developers


	Arnaud Rebillout (@arnaudr) is a Debian maintainer, he joined the team in 2021 to work on Kali development and maintenance.
	Ben Wilson (@g0tmi1k) is a senior developer who has worked on most areas inside of Kali since November 2015. Prior to that, in January 2012, he was helping BackTrack’s community. Since then he has also been an OffSec live instructor, maintained Exploit Database and founded VulnHub.
	Daniel Ruiz de Alegría (@DяA) is a computer geek passionate about anything related to technology, from software to hardware. He loves programming but also designing, all great projects deserve an awesome design, even the most simple ones. His role in Kali Linux, is to ensure everything looks stunning.
	Raphaël Hertzog (@buxy) is an experienced Debian developer and consultant, author of the well known Debian Administrator’s Handbook. He’s the packaging wizard in our team and manages our continuously growing development infrastructure.
	Steve Klimaszewski (@steev) does our ARM development for Kali Linux. He has been working with and on ARM devices since 2009.

Kali’s Founders


	Devon Kearns (@dookie) is an OffSec instructor, the administrator of the Exploit Database, co-creator of the Metasploit Unleashed project, exploitation fanatic, and co-author of Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide.
	Jim O’Gorman (@elwood) is the Chief Content and Strategy officer for OffSec and leads the Kali team. He has helped write a couple of books, teaches OffSec courses, and does a lot of meetings.
	Mati Aharoni (@muts) is the founder of OffSec. With over 10 years of experience as a professional penetration tester, Mati has uncovered several major security flaws and is actively involved in the offensive security arena.

Kali NetHunter Team


	Attila Kálmán (@yesimxev) is a security and mobile phone enthusiast, one of our NetHunter developers who is continuously improving the project for many years. His researches lead him to add support for several devices, including the first Kali NetHunter smartwatch!
	Christian Bremvåg (@kimocoder) is a security researcher and developer and part of the NetHunter team. Also a WiFi guru affiliated with the aircrack-ng project.
	Shubham Vishwakarma (@shubhamvis98) is a Linux enthusiast and embedded systems engineer. As the maintainer of Kali NetHunter Pro, he leads the development and release of new features and applications.
	@V0lk3n is a security enthusiast who enjoys challenges and loves learning new skills in the IT world.

Kali’s Community Leaders


	@Aura is a nerdy stay-at-home-mom and STEM educator who stumbled into the Kali community and now they can’t get rid of her.
	James Green (@greenjam94) lurks throughout the Kali community helping to moderate and improve communication. He has worked various roles in security since 2016.
	@Tristram is a blue teamer focused on defending healthcare systems. He shares practical ways to use Kali Linux for defensive operations, helping strengthen cybersecurity across the community.

Kali’s Helpers


	Sophie Brun (@sophie) is an engineer and has been working in computer science since 2014. She creates Debian packages for the latest penetration testing software and ensures that the growing list of tools are kept up-to-date.
	YOU! *You can get involved by going to our contribute page